Sentences with phrase «electrical signals produced»

In electroencephalography, or EEG, electrodes measure the electrical signals produced by the brain's neurons through the scalp.

Understanding the electrical signals produced by, and the limits of this technology will contribute to next - generation devices with higher informational content.

«Our model is still incomplete, but the electrical signals produced by the computer simulation and what was actually measured in the rat brain have some striking similarities,» says Allen Institute scientist Costas Anastassiou.

He said electrical signals produced by the ear could be connected to a patient's nerve endings, similar to a hearing aid.

Stimulating weakened muscles with a pattern of electrical signals produced by healthy muscles may encourage them to regenerate and dramatically improve their function.

Not exact matches

A transducer sends high - frequency sound waves into the body; as the sound waves bounce off organs and structures, they produce electrical signals that are converted into images.

These materials are also used in everyday devices, such as loudspeakers, which rely on piezoelectrics to convert electrical signals to mechanical vibrations which create sound waves to produce the desired acoustic signal.

If two adjacent neurons produce that protein, they join up, forming a synapse through which electrical signals can flow.

Using microelectrodes, the researchers recorded the electrical activity of pheromone - sensitive interneurons in male American cockroaches that relay signals of female - producing sex pheromones in the antennal lobe (functional homolog to the mammalian olfactory bulb) to higher - order centers.

The sensor (right), in turn, captured the energized electrons and produced a measurable electrical signal, which the scientists deemed a chemicurrent.

It involves genetically modifying neurons so they produce a light - sensitive protein, which makes them «fire», sending an electrical signal, when exposed to light.

The hairs in turn generate electrical impulses that somehow stimulate glands in the trap to produce jasmonic acid — the same signal that noncarnivorous plants use to initiate defensive action against herbivores.

In the approximately 30 seconds between a rat's last heartbeat and the point when its brain stopped producing signals, the team carefully recorded its neuronal oscillations, or the frequency with which brain cells were firing their electrical signals.

«Currently, to compute» 5 +7,» we need to send an electrical signal for» 5» and an electrical signal for» 7,» and the transistor does the mixing to produce an electrical signal for» 12,»» Agarwal said.

The team is exploring controlling their exoskeleton via patients» electromyography (EMG) signal — which records electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles — so that they'll be more actively involved in their training.

Ultimately, the accumulation of multiple electrical signals throughout the entire circuit of neurons produces brain waves.

The neurons, isolated from rats, produce bursts of electrical signals in various patterns, which can be â $ œtunedâ $ by the inputs they receive.

Another technique dubbed magnetoencephalography (MEG) maps magnetic fields in the brain produced by electrical signals; a similar approach, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), selectively stimulates parts of the brain and is already being used to treat severe depression, migraine headaches and other conditions.

These two disparate advances were important to the work of two Nobel Prize winners, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley, who showed how the flow of sodium and potassium across the membranes of nerves can be coupled to produce the action potential, a brief electrical event that initiates the action potential, which propagates the nervous signal.

Muscle cells in the heart also produce electrical signals.

This electrical potential is produced in consequence of electrical signals sent from the brain, along efferent nerves that control motor units (Baylor & Hollingworth, 2011; Smith et al. 2013).

Muscle fibers produce tensile force in this way in response to pulsed electrical signals sent from the central nervous system (CNS) along efferent nerves.

A weak or dying alternator, on the other hand, will produce weird electrical things: slower wipers, dimmer lights, or my favourite, dimming dashlights when the turn signal or rear defogger are turned on.

Commissioned to produce a San Francisco walk for this exhibition — the artist's sixty - fifth work in the Electrical Walks series — Kubisch selected and sequenced signals in the area around the museum that are particularly strong and sonically interesting.